Let's look at the easiest languages

 Navajo

Can I see in Duolingo how many lessons?

At the end of level six it sets a test to see if you can jump. Unless you jump you cannot see how many lessons are ahead. Can I cheat the system by using google translate to fill in correct answers. (This would speed me up, and I would still be learning.) No. Google translate has dozens of languages, the common ones and obscure ones, but not Navaho.

Google Translate

This is ridiculous. I could add half a dozen words to a dictionary. Would that be valid? 

No. Because I am not a native speaker. But it could be in a not yet published system waiting to be checked by native speakers.

Google translate's algorithms would check whether my answers are correct. At one point I was invited to join an online panel correcting English translations on Google. They ask a dozen people who have signed up as native speakers (passing a spelling and grammar test), and when all agree they add the result.

Esperanto 

Esperanto is another easy language. Easy for some. it has regular rules. No exceptions. But you have to learn them. i don't find them easy to remember or say. Easy to read. And lots of speakers. Used by Hungarians. 

Interlingua

I like Interlingua. But nobody speaks it or uses it. It's what you use if you are a polyglot in a desperate situation, like I was trying to warn a group of laughing Spanish girls that they needed to evacuate Euston station in London in the year 2000 because of a bomb scare. You picks words which are the same in several languages and add the most common endings, such as s for plurals, o for male, a for female. Similar to Spanish.

I like this because it says what it is. I think every flag should have its name in English or at very least in its own country's major language.

Interlingua seems to use salute for hello, saluta, for say hello, bon die for hello/ good day, salute mondo for hello world.

Useful Websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Mundial_pro_Interlingua

Translation English to Interlingua

https://glosbe.com/en/ia/hello

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I started learning Navaho - I can now say mother

Why did I start learning Navaho? I didn't intend to do so. But it is a quick course. I thought I would just look at the opening page. It looked hard. But you don't have to guess the pronunciation. You hear it in .Duolingo. I quickly learned shima was mother. It ends with ma like mama. Also the Chinese for mother is ma. 

She is a mother. Shima. Keep repeating it. Say it at least three times. Shima. Shima. Shima.

Navaho - English

shima - mother

English - Navaho

mother - shima

By writing this post, I have reinforced it in my mind. If you sign up for Navaho now, it will be easier for you. 

Useful Website

duolingo.com

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I Starting Learning Navaho - Why And How?

 I started learning Navaho. the native American language. It is apparently the shortest, easiest, quickest course to finish on Duolingo. I raced through the first task. Abini is morning. I looking at the letter b and thought of the word beginning or break of day, a starts the word as in a.m. 

The next easy word to learn was Ni in Navaho is you in English. It sounds and looks like the Chinese Ni hao which sounds like 'knee how?' which is literally 'you good?', meaning how are you in English. 

After you have learned a word, later in the set of tasks is choosing the correct word in Navaho from a list of three. That is easy. For example, morning is which, abini or ni? It is abini. You is which, abini or ni? It is ni.

Navaho - English

Abini - morning

Ni - you

English - Navaho

Morning - abini

you - ni

Useful Websites

duolingo.com

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